January 17, 2009
The New Year
Look Within
We are all embarking into a dynamic and historical new year with one remaining question in my mind: What we will make of it?
Will we embrace the future ahead of us with open arms and know that flexibility, innovation and gratitude are the pillars of our ability to dance with change. Or will we dive into our fear and run dark images of catastrophes ahead of us.
Our heaven or our hell all comes down to choice. The images we run in our minds, the language we are utilizing producing emotional states and driving our behavior.
My personal approach to this New Year is that this will be the best year of my life for relationships, business and living environment. Whenever we are faced with the unknown we require taking massive action in the direction of what we desire to achieve and believe down to our depths that it is possible.
Here’s a great quote from the renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright:
“The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”
This is a extraordinary time in history when the structures of unsustainable consumerism is re-evaluating itself and as a consequence each of us requires to look at what is really important to us individually.
I can only share with you what has surfaced for me and my choice for this New Year ahead of me. I know that possibilities remain endless and what I will make of this year ahead of me is up to me. The critical factor for 2009 is my attitude. My ability to focus, stay spiritually centered and curious about the power of relationship and the conversation.
Life has speeded up and changes are occurring more rapidly than ever before. This translated means my thoughts are manifesting faster than ever before. Which means I can make things happen?
Where have we been loosing our energy to create the life we desire to create? Worry will exhaust you, and fear depresses you. Have you taken a stand for what is really important to you?
Stay curious about the possibilities in your life and forge stronger relationships filled with authentic, powerful and nurturing conversations. The time of the lone wolf is over.
This life we lead is a collection of snapshots in time of our consciousness. What we chose to feel, think and be in our environments and relationships. Now is the only moment of power any of us will ever have to become the person we deeply know in our souls to be. Be the love you are today, in your next conversation, meeting the next stranger or sitting quietly alone. Kindness requires be extending and giving freely.
When all things are taken away from us, our youth, beauty, wealth or even health we have the collection of the snap shots of our life and the emotional intentions of our hearts to know who we are.
This life is a profound journey of discovering what we chose to value and be attached to here. We have tasted many experiences and stayed attached to our things and ideas about who we thought we were. Buddha said: “You go where your attachments are” The Master I had the good fortune to study with India would say: “The last image in the screen of your mind is what you have been most attached to in this life and will determine your next birth.” We can go for wealth. We can go for God. We can live for our families or our attempt to sustain our youthfulness but whatever we are most attached to through our life will be the guiding force for our future.
Watch the focus of your mind and let your thoughts originate from a well of gratitude for the blessing of your life, be considerate of others, mindful of your actions and know it is time to wake up from your dream of what the culture has indoctrinated into us. You have this one opportunity to be you.
Be like a lotus who blossoms with its face pointing toward the light and its roots deeply anchored in the mud below the river of your life.
We are magical beings who often times forget the power we wield and the sleeping wizard that lay’s within each one of us. We are anything but helpless victims of a world gone mad. We can chose to be awake observers of the changes destined to occur and focused upon the future like a child awaiting Christmas morning filled with opportunity and wonder.
It is a choice.
My invitation is to us all: Do whatever it takes to stay in the company of people who uplift you and avoid negative, toxic relationships, start a gratitude journal and list at least five things you are grateful for daily. Meditate and at the same time take massive action to create the life and contribution you desire to create.
Stop wasting time. Every thought and action is determining the overall snapshot of your life. It is the moment where you can determine what you will focus upon therefore what you are attached too.
The culmination of your life is the culmination of what you dwelt upon most. See, think and speak possibility. Stay focused on where you desire to go and if you find yourself off course, utilize it as feedback not failure and re-set yourself back on track once more.
These are the times that bring forward all the learning we have integrated through our life experience. Let’s demonstrate our wisdom in small and large ways through choosing joy rather than fear, possibility rather than hopelessness, creativity and innovation rather than stagnation and expansion and exploration rather than contraction.
The beginning of 2009 is the year to demonstrate who you have become so your future self is alive and well today in the brilliant New Year filled with possibilities and choice. You are the one you have been waiting for. Happiness is not in your future it is in your NOW.
Love & Light
Gary De Rodriguez
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